1073 examples of fettering in sentences

The faction at Carthage, which was at feud with his family, succeeded in fettering and interfering with his power; and other generals were from time to time sent into Spain, whose errors and misconduct caused the reverses that Hasdrubal met with.

Then was the time in which the chains, fastened in those huge rings which still dangle from the grim house-fronts, were stretched across the street; thus enclosing and fettering a compact mass of combatants in an iron embrace, while from the rare and narrow murder-windows in the walls, and from the beetling roofs, descended the hail of iron and stone and scalding pitch and red-hot coals to refresh the struggling throng below.

I have the mortification to find a difficulty, as the lady is of rank and fortune, and as there is no consent of father or next friend, in obtaining this all-fettering instrument.

And, in spite of the deference due to Lord Palmerston's great experience, it is hard to see how a conversation between our Foreign Secretary and the French Ambassador on an action, the result of which is as yet undecided, can be wholly unofficial, in the sense of having no influence on the conduct of affairs, or, as he expressed it, "in no degree or way fettering the action of the government.

Whereupon Hereward was clapped into an outhouse, whence he escaped forthwith by the simple device of cutting off the head of the man sent to fetter him, and the good mare Swallow bore him back to Ely in safety.

The same chains which bind those now existing to the center of this system of paper credit must equally fetter every similar institution we create.

Corruption may steal from a man his independence; capital may starve, and intrigue fetter him, at times; but against all these, his vote, intelligently and honestly cast, is, in the long run, his full protection.

To catch and to fetter I instantly tried, And "thou art my slave, pretty vagrant," I cried.

I once saw there a fetter for 'the dd runaways,' the weight of which can be judged by its size.

At this time I saw a poor fellow compelled to work in the field, at 'logging,' with such a galling fetter on his ankles.

Whenever he lifted, the fetter rested on his bare ankles.

If he lost his balance and made a misstep, which must very often occur in lifting and rolling logs, the torture of his fetter was severe.

They prowl through the country, buy, catch, and fetter them, and drive their chained coffles up to his stand, where Thomas N. Gadsden, Esq. knocks them off to the highest bidder, to Ex-Governor Butler perhaps, or to Ex-Governor Hayne, or to Hon.

I once saw there a fetter for 'the dd runaways,' the weight of which can be judged by its size.

At this time I saw a poor fellow compelled to work in the field, at 'logging,' with such a galling fetter on his ankles.

Whenever he lifted, the fetter rested on his bare ankles.

Every vigorous utterance, every bold political step of the Government, finds in the soul of the people a deeply felt echo, and loosens the bonds which fetter all their forces.

The disturbances in the Far East will probably fetter Russia's forces, and England's interests will suffer in sympathy.

Printed at the Blew Anchor next Mitre Court over against Fetter Lane in Fleet Street."

* * FAITOUR LANE, Or as it is now called, Fetter Lane, is a term used by Chaucer, for an idle fellow.

Thought on burning thought Shatters the doubts and terrors which have bowed Weak hearts on weaker leaning in a crowd Self-crushing and self-fettering; gleams are caught From some far centre set by God to keep His brave world spinning, or some drifting isle Of swift wildfire shot out by the wide sweep Of wings demoniac, Far winnowing and black, Our cheated souls to 'wilder and beguile.

SEE Fetter, Elizabeth H. LEET, LEWIS DON. Practical seismology and seismic prospecting.

Near morning they went into one of their many retreats in the chaparral, fettering their prisoner.

As in Catholicism, this priestly cultus really drilled deep into the natures of men the principles and laws and habitudes of ethical and spiritual religion; and stored the force which, when its rigid routine and fettering formalism became unbearable, burst through this crust and opened a new world of fresh, free life.

The perpetually recurring misapprehension of freedom consists in regarding that term only in its formal, subjective sense, abstracted from its essential objects and aims; thus a constraint put upon impulse, desire, passionpertaining to the particular individual as sucha limitation of caprice and self-will is regarded as a fettering of freedom.

1073 examples of  fettering  in sentences